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PUBLIC LAW 87-256-SEPT. 21, 1961

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(5) promoting and supporting medical, scientific, cultural, and educational research and development; (6) promoting modern foreign language training and area studies in United States schools, colleges, and universities by supporting visits and study in foreign countries by teachers and prospective teachers in such schools, colleges, and universities for the purpose of improving their skill in languages and their knowledge of the culture of the people of those countries, and by financing visits by teachers from those countries to the United States for the purpose of participating in foreign language training and area studies in United States schools, colleges, and universities; (7) United States representation at international nongovernmental educational, scientific, and technical meetings; (8) participation by groups and individuals from other countries in educational, scientific, and technical meetings held under American auspices in or outside the United States; (9) encouraging independent research into the problems of educational and cultural exchange. SEC. 103. (a) The President is authorized to enter into agreements Agreements. with foreign governments and international organizations, in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. In such agreements the President is authorized, when he deems it in the public interest, to seek the agreement of the other governments concerned to cooperate and assist, including making use of funds placed in special accounts pursuant to agreements concluded in accordance with section 115(b)(6) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, or any similar agreements, in ^^ ^*"*- '^^• providing for the activities authorized in section 102, and particularly those authorized in subsection 102(a)(1), of this Act with respect to the expenses of international transportation of their own citizens and nationals and of activities in furtherance of the purposes of this Act carried on within the borders of such other nations. (b) Such agreements may also provide for the creation or continuation of binational or multinational educational and cultural foundations and commissions for the purpose of administering programs in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. (c) I n such agreements with international organizations, the Presi- ^Q^'^ ^ paiticipadent may provide for equitable United States participation in and support for, including a reasonable share of the cost of, educational and cultural programs to be administered by such organizations. SEC. 104. (a) The President may delegatej to such officers of the ^^D«iegationof auGovernment as he determines to be appropriate, any of the powers conferred upon him by this Act to the extent that he finds such delegation to be in the interest of the purposes expressed in this Act and the efficient administration of the programs undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That where the President has delegated any of Transmittal to such powers to any officer, before the President implements any pro- ''"*^'"*"'posal for the delegation of any of such powers to another officer, that proposal shall be submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and thereafter a period of not less than sixty days shall have elapsed while Congress is in session. In computing such sixty days, there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not m session because of an adjournment of more than three days.

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